The entire article has been designed to guide people who are looking for potential cheats and hacks towards a legitimate and valid means to get what they are looking for in a cost effective manner. I hardly consider this to be traffic siphoning.

Furthermore I am highly suspicious of the fact that this article is in competition with some of Maddie Ruud's own articles on hubpages who was just recently installed as head moderator.

Since I am unable to contact a site moderator directly. I am addressing this through the forums. I feel that others should know about the issue and be aware of what might be considered bias by moderators with conflicting hub page interests.

I'd like to see the current flag removed and my hub re-instated with it's previous good ranking immediately.

In addition, the moderators of hub pages need to do a MUCH better job of making if clear what parameters are acceptable for off-site linking and content. My hub page has been live for several months already and only recently flagged as stated above.

So what you mean is you really like the hub page interface, but you don't think the revenue should be split ? Or a different split perhaps? You might be able to negotiate that if your work is good.

And you would much rather have had this hub flagged six months ago so you didn't make any revenue out of it the last six months? Maddie only just started here and has already posted several times that she is going through a backlog of hubs that needed getting rid of.

As far as I can tell, if you fix the hub to comply with the rules, it will get re-instated. That sounds like just removing one link from what you have said.

I've addressed the link issue and my hub has been re-instated. Thanks for the help. I'm assuming that my hub score will recover over time as well?

As far as the two other issues. No ill will meant towards Maddie, I know that she has contributed a lot to the hub page community at large. Without being provided adequate explanation as to why my hub page was flagged and immediately unpublished without information on what changes I needed to make, it seemed an odd coincidence on the competitive content side and her recent addition to the team. Sorry for jumping to conclusions.

I would have much rather seen a "warning" message from HubPages telling me that my hub was violating the terms of use and giving me a few days (or week) to address the issue before completely taking it offline. Immediate unpublishing of my hub for "one link over the limit" seems a bit harsh a response for that infraction. Especially given that it's several months after the fact and those links have been there the entire time.

Secondly, I am also not averse to the idea of revenue sharing, it is a great model in itself, and I understand that it enables hubpages to stay in business, I'm just not overly enamored with the way it's been implemented on hubpages. Correct me if I'm wrong here, but it looks like I get zero revenue on 40% of my page traffic. If all the affiliate purchases came during those 40% of the page visits, I actually see none of it. I realize that the reverse is also true regarding the 60% of page traffic, but I would be much more in favor of a 60-40 split on all revenue generated which shares it more equitably for everyone.

Your analysis of the situation is correct. If all the sales only occur during the 40% of the time when the HubPages' affiliate code is on the page, you get nothing. However this is not a new situation, the site has always been structured that way.

medialateral - as regards making serious money on HubPages, even the excellent Lissie admits that she "failed to make any significant money" She has 65 published hubs of high score/quality and a large number of fans.

I see your profile is not yet complete - one thing that will immediately improve your general score is a picture and your location. If you don't wish to be specific, have a look and see how other hubber interpret this (actually, my hub with the most comments concerns the topic of profiles).

HubPages is much more about making money - it's an extremely supportive community with a large amount of quality writing and some ingenious software scripts to make those hubs readily accessible. As far as I'm concerned, the owners/staff of HubPages are entitled to the 60% share for making such an elegant and fun interface.

:lol ember PJD I didn't start with lots of sites and fans! I think its important to remember that on HP just like everything on the web the snowball effect occurs - it took me 5 months to get 200 fans - now I have anothe over 50 in a few weeks - the same thing happens with earnings - since Oct my monthly Adsense tracks as : $6.50, $8.40, $12.60. $22.90, $17.30, $24.12 Of all of those about $2 from my own sites. So income is going up consistently - though it doesn't necessarily relate to either the number of hubs you have or the amount of traffic to my hubs - its more about kw, SEO and magic potions as far as I can tell :-)

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